This is awesome!! You both sound great!

Thank you! It was a particularly good recording, heh. Suffice to say I got my degree. ^^

Thank you! The second part is a wee bit more exciting, and still quite intellectually pleasing. ;D

Is this performed from the original version of the piece? Too often I hear the revised editions from the Romantic era. Even professional violinists are guilty of playing these adulterated editions.

I'll tell you right away that the original doesn't call for a string orchestra. That being said, it's not *overly* romanticised. I do have a pure baroque recording scheduled, so I'll post that when I finish it!

Yes, I do realize the original doesn't have a string orchestra. However, it does contain a basso continuo. All printed editions I've found of this piece have a fully realized "piano" part, and I believe the violin part has been altered slightly too. I've never been able to find the original edition with the basso continuo.

Yeah, it's self evident, haha! I just thought it would be funny to mention, but internet tone and all.
Now, from the fully realized accompaniment you can recreate the original continuo (assuming they worked from the original) by looking at the lowest note (usually) and the chord, you have to be careful not to assume that embellishments in the bass line are actual changes in the continuo, this can be done by analyzing the chord progression - it's most common for the bass to change or be repeated (in the case of inversions) for every chord, though sometimes there are rhythmic repetitions. I guess you checked IMSLP - that's as far as I know it, heh. In that sense the harpsichord part here was an improvized realization of the continuo, the string section was pre-arranged. I don't remember any-more if it was a bona-fide baroque version but I assure you that the next time you listen to this in my gallery it will be!

may I send a copy of the painting to Bjarte Eike?

your music is so very wonderful... you are right - I can write to it every day...

V.

Hey, if you know him be you're more than welcome to!

And again, thank you! Heh, now if only I worked with more pirate-y pieces! =D

A natural, expected success that your ' jury' was fortunate enough to have been blessed to witness. I like the interplay with the harpiscord. And.. well, that transition 5.5 minutes in is to die for; devilishly wily! Both in original composition and your furiously beautiful execution.

Well, let's see how it ends!

Much of the jury helped me become what I was then and now! Mustn't forget that - some of my teachers would make still make me sound like a student. I blame it on them having original romantic/classical violins rather than my reconstructions.
And thank you! I always saw that part as when the devil begins playing to Tartini, the music is almost maddening as if it were dancing around a soul, mocking its mortality and limited comprehension at the eternal.

That was pretty much my mental image; that he's surrounding through dance; faster and smarter beyond measure. You yourself aren't a devil, are you? ;D

Grande lavoro

This has always been my favorite piece of classical music. It's so beautiful. You both did amazing on this rendition of such a majestic sonata!